KNOW Annual Retreat – Saturday Jan. 10th, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm at Unity of Kalamazoo

Please consider this your personal invitation to attend the 2015 Annual Retreat of Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War (KNOW) on Saturday, January 10th, from 9:30 am until 3:00 pm. This year’s event will be held at the Unity of Kalamazoo church, 1204 Whites Road.  This is halfway between Oakland Drive and Westnedge. We are hoping [...]

Critical Issues, Alternative Views episode on racism, police violence, and social justice

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2014 Election Analysis

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Keeping Faith in Congress: Building Peace at Home and Abroad

Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) Executive Secretary Diane Randall (from  Washington D.C.) will speak on Keeping Faith in Congress:  Building Peace at Home and Abroad Saturday, December 13, 2014 10:30 am. -12:30 pm. Kalamazoo Friends Meeting 508 Denner Street  (corner of Jefferson, off Douglas St.) Kalamazoo, Michigan 49006 Light refreshments will be served. Open [...]

Ground the Drones! Saturday Nov. 8, 2014 1:00 pm

Ground the Drones!Join us in Battle Creek at the gates of the National Guard base   Saturday, November 8, 2014 1:00pm-2:00pm While unmanned aerial drones are touted as a safe, accurate and low-cost means of waging the war on terror, the truth is that they are responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths, the terrorizing of [...]

Kalamazoo Interfaith Coalition for Peace and Justice statement

Kalamazoo Interfaith Coalition for Peace and Justice Resolution on Gaza The Kalamazoo Interfaith Coalition speaks from its long established vision of peace and justice. We believe that silence at this stage contributes to acts of violence as the human tragedy in Gaza screams to the conscience of all the people of the world, if not [...]

Peace with justice in Gaza – commentary by Daniel Smith

Regarding Israel’s attack on Gaza, often one hears in the media the following justification: “No country in the world would put up with rockets being shot at you, what if Mexico shot rockets at Austin, Texas (or pick a U.S. city) would you stand idly by?  This is self-defense.” I propose that the following analogy [...]

2014 Memorial Day Parade video

Friday, August 1, 2014 vigil to end bloodshed in Gaza

Friday, 8/1/14 vigil to end bloodshed in Gaza! Friday, August 1 2014, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. Kalamazoo Federal Building, corner of Park and Michigan, downtown Kalamazoo We must raise our voices to stop the massacre of civilians in Gaza. Stop US military aid to Israel. Stop the illegal settlements and blockade of Gaza and [...]

Love in the age of dying icebergs

“Love in the age of dying icebergs” a poem by Jessica Clark I wonder if we will love as we have always loved, as geologic structures slip into the sea solidity crumbling, islands swallowed by the sea. There are peaks and valleys, whole mountain ranges on the verge of eruption just beneath our feet, from [...]